Pre-emptive blogging

As some of you may know, it's NaBloPoMo and it looks like Jasper, Everett, and Juno are plowing ahead, again, this year!

So before we get 'reprimanded' for not blogging...I'm blogging!!!

Unfortunately, well, I've mostly been working and I don't think anyone wants to see pictures of that. So a few updates:

Remember the parking lot with random trees?

It became this...

And on some nights, this....

More next time!

Birthday love

Yup, it was my birthday a few weeks ago.

While I had lots of well-wishes from near and far, in person, over email, Facebook, and even snail mail (we'll leave out the part where someone opened my mail and stole the magnets my aunt sent me), here are a few of the best...

From Jasper...

Everett...

 and Juno...

Thank you!!!

Random trees in parking lots

This is the view from my apartment...trees in the middle of parking lots.

2011, so far...

This is what I did this year...
I had a birthday and got gifts and hugs...

I saw Bon Jovi in concert (a few times).

I went shopping at Target...Missoni, anyone?

I worked (a lot) - I'm actually taking this picture of Tina and Sarah, but you get the point...

Went to baseball games and basketball games...

We went to Iceland, went to the Blue Lagoon, and had the best lunch ever (according to Mom)...

And I made cakes - maybe more on that in another post!

Belated NLDS news...

Well, this post is a little late, but...

My colleague convinced me to ditch Friday afternoon at the office to go to the NLDS Game 5 - Diamondbacks vs. Brewers. (it didn't take much convincing). So we got decked out in our Brewers gear and headed to Miller Park on a beautiful fall day!

Miller Park looked great - too bad the roof was closed, though...and since this post is over a month after the event, we all know the Brewers won the series!!! (although they lost to the Cardinals in the NLCS...)

Can't wait for baseball in 2012...will Prince Fielder still be with the Brewers?!?!

Super Bowl XLV

The Hoan Bridge...

...otherwise known as 'our bridge', by Jasper...



Originally called the Harbor Bridge, it was renamed the Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge, after one of Milwaukee's mayors, and it connects downtown Milwaukee to Bay View. In the summer, it's amazing to see all the sailboats going between Lake Michigan and the river...

And sometimes the not-so-little boats, too...


Unfortunately, it has had its share of problems...

It's pink!!!

To support Jasper, Everett, and Juno as they start NaBloPoMo...here is my post.


Remember when Jasper and Juno played in the fountains outside the Milwaukee Art Museum? Well, here's what the fountains looked like a few weeks ago, in support of breast cancer awareness...

Guess which set of cousins came to visit this past weekend! It was a very musical weekend - piano, dancing with the polka band at Friday Fish Fry, and maybe Jasper and Juno will post some of their guitar pictures...

Everett had his eye on them...

And everyone got to play in the fountains outside the Milwaukee Art Museum after we watched the Burke Brise Soleil open Sunday morning.


Come back to visit again soon!

Christmas is almost here!

Just like Keira and Juno, I put up my Christmas tree yesterday. Only, I didn't have to pick mine up from the tree farm; I got mine pre-lit!


Do you recognize him?




This is Aidan, telling me that Derek Jeter is also his favorite baseball player! :)